Bible Person

Timnah

Meaning: forbidding · Male · 2 cross references

Timnah is an Edomite chief-name preserved in the lists descending from Esau. The page uses a person-style entry for a ruling or ancestral name later associated with Edom's regional structure. First appears in Gen 36:40.1

AI summary: Timnah matters because his cross references place the name among the chiefs of Edom, helping preserve the political and genealogical order of a neighboring people. Even as a brief notice, the entry contributes to the wider regional map in which Israel's history unfolds. Taken together, the material presents Timnah as an Edomite chief-name in Scripture's remembered ordering of surrounding nations.1

Central Figure

Timnah

Meaning: forbidding

A “duke” or sheik of Edom (Gen.